The NS2 playable alpha is coming Monday, July 26th. Anyone that
has pre-ordered the Special Edition by then will be able to 
play on that date forward. After that date, the Special Edition,
black armor and first alpha access will no longer be available
and the Standard Edition price will increase.
 
We have a ton of work to do in the next two weeks so it may be especially
hard for us to pound the pavement and get the word out. So if you could
promote the following screenshots and links when spreading, that would be
very helpful (these image URLs can handle any amount of traffic):
 
http://www.naturalselection2.com/storage/NS2-SporeAttack.jpg
http://www.naturalselection2.com/storage/NS2-HallwayBattle.jpg
http://www.naturalselection2.com/storage/NS2-SporeAttack.jpg
http://www.naturalselection2.com/storage/NS2-MarineCommanderMode.jpg
http://www.naturalselection2.com/storage/NS2-SpecialArmor.jpg 
 
http://www.naturalselection2.com/buy (the most important for our
livelihood!)
 
If each of you could get a single news site to write about this, make a post
on gaming forum talking about what you love about the game (include those
screenshots!) or even a tweet or Facebook update about this, it would help
us TREMENDOUSLY. If you tweet or FB, I've found that it helps to ask people
to "please RT" or "please share".
 
Please e-mail me if with any questions at charlie@unknownworlds.com. Also
feel free to pass on my e-mail address to any bloggers or news sites that
might have questions for us.
 
Thanks so much everyone!
 
-Charlie